[mythtv-users] New machine, patch order

[Antoine Busch]

I'm not quite sure what problems you are referring to, but FWIW I have
the same motherboard with a PVR500 and everything is working fine on
Dapper without me having to patch anything. I haven't tried Edgy on it
yet, though.

Cheers,
Antoine

On 10/31/06, David Fishburn <fishburn at ianywhere.com> wrote:
>
> I am pretty new to Linux, just looking for direction.
>
> Just received my new machine which has an ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard.
>
> I have read on the list a few problems between ASUS mbs and the Hauppauge
> cards (well the 500 anyway).
>
> I am just wondering what the order of operations is for a new machine.
>
> The patches from ASUS for Linux are just zip files.  The BIOS patch is a
> .bin.
> They have 2 patches for nVidia stuff.
>         NVIDIA Display Linux Driver (v1.0-8174) install package for kernel
> 2.4 and 2.6.
>         NVIDIA Chipset 32/64bit Linux Driver install package for kernel 2.4
> and 2.6
>
> So, do I:
> 1.  Install Ubuntu Edgy
> 2.  Apply these updates from ASUS
> 3.  aptitude update
> 4.  Grab the most current nVidia drivers
>
> Is step 4 required.  Since it is a new machine I figured I should go out and
> get all the updated drivers.  What I am not certain of is as the nVidia
> files that I download from Asus any different from what I would get from
> Ubuntu's package manager?
>
> TIA,
> Dave